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Board presses OKCPS staff on college-and-career centers: survey reach, partner MOUs, transportation and sustainability
Summary
Trustees heard staff describe the FLEET process that assigned career pathways to new college-and-career centers, and pressed for more detailed survey counts, signed MOUs with industry partners, transportation plans for student transfers and long-term sustainability for expensive equipment.
Oklahoma City Public Schools district staff on Wednesday walked the board through the FLEET process that identified programming for the district——s new college-and-career centers but received repeated questions from trustees about survey representativeness, partner commitments, transportation and long-term sustainability.
Dr. Galloway, a district presenter, described FLEET (Flexible Learning Educational Environment Team) as a February——2023 process that assembled 16 district administrators and later site teams to combine student, family, staff and workforce feedback with labor-market data. He said the process narrowed potential programming through site-level teams that considered local student interests, workforce needs and available industry partnerships.
Trustees challenged staff on the underlying data. Chair Paula Lewis and other board members…
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